The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43075-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 116, 524 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1015 g

Reihe: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

The volume The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia offers an overview of the study of emotions in ancient texts, discusses the concept of emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and shows how emotions are described in the ancient texts. In the section dedicated to Ancient Egypt, scholars discuss emotions such as fear, depression, anger, feelings of pain, envy, jealousy and greed, with evidence from different text genres, as well as emotions from the Late Ramesside Letters and royal inscriptions. In the section dedicated to Ancient Mesopotamia, scholars present a wide range of perspectives on Sumerian and Akkadian literary and archival texts that treat emotions in different periods.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hsu, Shih-Wei

Llop Raduà, Jaume

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

1 The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia: An Introduction

Shih-Wei Hsu and Jaume Llop Raduà

Part 1 The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt

2 History of Horror: A Diachronic Overview of Fear(s) in Ancient Egyptian Texts

Sven Eicke

3 “I Wish I Could Die”: Depression in Ancient Egypt

Shih-Wei Hsu

4 Royal Rage and Private Anger in Ancient Egypt

Ines Köhler

5 Everybody Hurts: Understanding and Visualizing Pain in Ancient Egypt

Tara Prakash

6 “Without You I Am an Orphan”: Exploring Emotion and Interpersonal Pragmatics in the Late Ramesside Letters

Kim Ridealgh

7 Indexes of Emotions in Pianchy’s Great Stela with Some Cultural Comparisons

Anthony Spalinger

8 “Do Not Cast an Eye on Another One’s Goods …!”: Aspects of Envy, Jealousy and Greed in Ancient Egypt

Alexandra Verbovsek

Part 2 The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Mesopotamia

9 Depression at the Royal Courts of Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal

Greta Van Buylaere

10 Shaping Gender, Shaping Emotions: On the Mutual Construction of Gender Identities and Emotional Roles in Ancient Mesopotamia

Agnès Garcia-Ventura

11 Emotions and Their Expression in a Religious Historical Perspective in Ancient Mesopotamia

Margaret Jaques

12 Expressions of Joy and Happiness in Neo-Assyrian

Mikko Luukko

13 From Landscape to Ritual Performances: Emotions in Sumerian Literature

Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel

14 Jealousy in Akkadian Love Literature: Zarpanitu in the Divine Love Lyrics

Rocío Da Riva

15 Visible Death and Audible Distress: The Personification of Death (Mutu) and Associated Emotions as Inherent Conditions of Life in Akkadian Sources

Irene Sibbing-Plantholt

16 Gilgamesh and Emotional Excess: The King without Counsel in the SB Gilgamesh Epic

Karen Sonik

17 Pounding Hearts and Burning Livers: The “Sentimental Body” in Mesopotamian Medicine and Literature

Ulrike Steinert

18 Fear in Akkadian Texts: New Digital Perspectives on Lexical Semantics

Saana Svärd, Tero Alstola, Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala and Krister Lindén

Index of Subjects and Names

Index of Sources

Index of Words

Über Autor(innen)

Shih-Wei Hsu, Ph.D. (2014), Free University of Berlin, is Associate Professor of History at Nankai University (P.R. China). She is an Egyptologist specialised in Egyptian language, rhetorical stylistics, development of royal inscriptions and kingship.

Jaume Llop Raduà, Ph.D. (2001), University of Barcelona, is Professor of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). He is an Assyriologist specialised in Late Bronze Age Assyria.